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If the OCR is good then they're totally burying the lede, it's pricing is 100x cheaper than commercial OCR APIs. It's potentially a game changer, plenty of ind
by ig1 11y ago
If the OCR is good then they're totally burying the lede, it's pricing is 100x cheaper than commercial OCR APIs.
It's potentially a game changer, plenty of industries have piles of scanned documents. Cheap OCR means this data suddenly becomes accessible even if the value per individual document is low (i.e. for input into machine learning).
- mgpc 11y agoPaper from a few years ago comparing Google's OCR system to commercially available benchmarks: http://www.educatingsilicon.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/photoocr_iccv_paper.pdf http://www.educatingsilicon.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/p... A lot better for text in photographs. Comparison might be different on dense document text though.